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Fuchsia Hart
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Curator for the Iranian Collection, V&A Museum
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The image above is one of a group of incredibly cool polaroids created by Iranian photographer Kaveh Golestan in 1976 which recently entered the V&A collections.
For more info: collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page...
And another of my favourites here 👇
A polaroid photograph showing an Iranian woman (Taj al-Saltanah), with snakes coiled around her. In the background, a tiled portal of a mosque or similar building.
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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I'm Fuchsia, a historian of the arts of Iran, & currently curator for the Iranian collections at the V&A. It's a while since I was on Twitter & I'm not sure how I'll use this platform yet, but I wanted to say hi 👋
(Image: Untitled from the Az Div o Dad series, Kaveh Golestan, V&A PH.459-2024)
A polaroid photograph depicting a man in military dress sitting on a chair, with the head of a big cat, and butterfly wings; five men stand behind him. The work was created by Kaveh Golestan and is part of his Az Div o Dad series. It is in the V&A with the accession number PH.459-2024.
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM